parsing CSV files with quotes

[Fredrik Lundh]

Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> wrote:
> Another is that any code with eval() can do "way more than I intended" by
> calling eval, since eval() is basically opening up the entire parser.
>
> Is there some code to do eval_literals_only() that knows about parsing
> literal expressions but which can't be made to call any functions?

value = eval(expression, {"__builtins__": {}})

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